amu darya in English

noun
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a river in central Asia that rises in the Pamirs and flows 1,500 miles (2,400 km) into the Aral Sea. In classical times, it was known as the Oxus.

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1. The Amu Darya carries more water than any other river in Central Asia.

2. Irrigation now depends mainly on the decrepit Garagum Canal, which carries water across Turkmenistan from the Amu Darya.

3. Bactria is an ancient region of Central Asia, between the Hindu Kush Mountain range and the Oxus River (today generally called the Amu Darya River)

4. The Kingdom of Bactria was located north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and south of the Amu Darya river, on the plateau where Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are today

5. Bactria (băk`trēə), ancient Greek kingdom in central Asia.Its capital was Bactra, present-day Balkh Balkh, town, N Afghanistan, on a dried-up tributary of the Amu Darya River

6. 2200–1700 BC, located in present-day eastern Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centred on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus), an area covering ancient Bactria.

7. The Columned hall had two rows of three columns of the Amu-Darya at the site of Kyuzeli-gȳr,17 and in and small mud-brick platforms, a feature also attested at the mid-fifth century BC on the east bank at Dingil’dzhe, which Soviet archaeologists considered typi- Dingil’dzhe

8. They can be completely eradicated in shallow water bodies, and during the winter of 1948–49 in the Amu Darya (river in central Asia), muskrats constituted 12.3% of jackal faeces contents, and 71% of muskrat houses were destroyed by jackals, 16% of which froze and became unsuitable for muskrat occupation.

9. Research works are dedicated to the epoch of the beginning of Zoroastrianism proceeding up-to-date Islam and its meaning in the ancient delta of the Amu-Darya in the XI-XII-th centuries A.D. as well as to the research of the History of the Karakalpak people in the Middle Age and on the new stage of development.